Cocoa in Africa, when will the quality and profitability be expected for growers?
Audio 48:30
Ivorian cocoa producers in a plantation near Sinfra, central region of Côte d'Ivoire, October 12, 2019. ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
60 min
With more than 75% of world production, the African continent is the main exporter of cocoa.
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Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana are the world's leading producers.
If Africa is a leader in the production of the raw material, it receives only a tiny part of the income generated by the chocolate industry.
Indeed, producers receive only 6% of the 100 billion dollars in annual revenues of the sector.
And according to the World Bank, half of Ivorian planters live below the poverty line.
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Turn to high-end cocoa production?
Claire Fages
, journalist in the economics department of
RFI
, presenter of the commodities column
Michel Barel
, former research director of the
Center for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD),
member of the
French Chocolate Academy
and director of the KawaCao cabinet, a consultancy firm for cocoa and coffee.
Author of
Du cacao au chocolat - the epic of a gluttony
(Quae Editions)
Christophe Eberhart
, agricultural engineer, co-founder of
Ethiquable
, a cooperative specializing in the sale of organic fair trade products
And a report by
Raphaëlle Constant
in Burkina Faso.
Our reporter met the pastry chocolate maker
Chef André in Ouagadougou.
--- BoB Chef André Ouagadougou (4 "-5'53)
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